Bawbag

Fingers crossed

I’m a bit lost at the TV bit though. What’s that about?

TV… that’s the money-making-and-propaganda department of the company that runs HYS, isn’t it?

I’m a bit lost at the TV bit though. What’s that about?

To analogise, let’s say someone who identified themselves as Asian took offence at something Kelvin wrote that they perceived to be racist, (but clearly wasn’t).

Would you be comfortable if there then followed dozens of comments, saying ‘well of course Asians think that, they’re too busy running a corner shop/oppressing their wives/building a bomb to really think it through.’ ?

And if other Asians said they were offended at being called wife beating terrorists, would you say it was their fault, and accuse them of lacking irony?

Claiming ‘it’s just a joke’ works for Jim Davidson too.

(and Nelson re complaining about programmes you’ve never watched, what’s wrong with that? I used to call up the Beeb every Saturday Davidson did ‘The Generation Game’ to complain that a man who’s club act included the line ‘she’s so ugly a nigger wouldn’t rape her’ was getting some of my license fee. Never watched it. Fuck him.)

And Nelson, I have no problem with words like twat or cunt – it’s only their shocking under use that keeps them in the category of Worst Words Ever. If they were used as often as prick, balls, dick, cock, bell end, and my new favourite, that I hadn’t come across until seeing it on this site – idiot rim cheese – then no-one would care.

Lastly re offside rule – those of us who enjoy football (or who like me, support QPR) find it’s best explained to other lady bumps, by avoiding technical words and pointing out what it’s mean to do, which is to stop goal hanging (Jumpers for goalposts… hmmm).
Without it, attacking players could simply park themselves in the penalty box, and wait for the ball to be lobbed forward. Having to keep level with the defenders stops that from happening. Clear now?

Now, moving on…

Apart from that very confusing period when I was fourteen, but that was just a phase.

Anyway, you don’t really get closet socialists walking around acting like they’re libertarians.

Similarly, there’s nothing wrong with being a socialist – it’s just that for some reason it’s caught on as an insulting term to use. Someone calls me a socialist, the response is, “Yes, and?”

Absolutely… rather than “No, YOU’RE a socialist! Ha!”.

Though, yeah, I can make exceptions when it involves winding up shitheads.

Love how men think they can (or should) explain to us laydeez exactly what we should find offensive or not and why.

ALL men? I hope you’re not generalising there, Ms Spesh…

And moving on, I’ve tried to read your explanation of the offside rule about 5 times but my eyes literally cannot stay on it.

At least the topic’s moved on to football, so being a bloke I can at last make an educated comment on this thread.

As I understood it, the offside rule is where half the crowd shout “hurrah!” and the other half shout “was he bollocks!” for no apparent reason.

Of course, reading JC’s post, I realise now there might be a bit more to it than that. Balls* are clearly involved at some stage. But the basic principle stands: if your mates shout “was he bollocks!” what you have to do is tut and shake your head and say “shameful” or some such utterance.

Works for me.

* the non-sexist kind